COLUMBUS, Ohio — The city of Columbus is on pace to top last year's high for the number of homicides in one year.
There were 174 homicides in the city last year. That tragic number will likely be beaten this year.
Columbus police say a fight broke out in a parking lot Thursday night in the Linden neighborhood. A 29-year-old man was later shot and killed.
The shooting happened just a foot from a Columbus police substation.
This is the city's 95th homicide in 2021. Last year at this time, there were 57 homicides, the year the high was set for most homicides. There were 51 at this time in 2019.
There weren't 95 homicides in Columbus until Sept. 1, 2020.
That doesn't tell the total picture of violence in the city. There have been nearly 1200 felonious assaults so far this year compared to 500 around this time last year.